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Iran: Twitter, Cyberwarfare and Opposition Movements

Jun 16, 2009 | 21:23 GMT

An Iranian woman takes pictures from the balcony of Tehran's Milad telecommunications tower

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Summary

New online social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook have been an important part of developing events in Iran in the wake of the disputed presidential election. The opposition movement has successfully leveraged these and other tools to further its own goals, with implications far beyond Tehran.

Social networking has again come to the fore in political strife, this time in Tehran....

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